THE SIGN HERALDING THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.

"As soon as the distress of those days has passed, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars* will fall from the sky, the celestial powers will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign that heralds the Son of Man. All the peoples of the world will make lamentation, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory. With a trumpet blast he will send out his angels, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from the farthest bounds of heaven on every side."  (Matt 24:29-31 NEB).

In Isaiah 14:12 reference is given to a particular "star": "How you have fallen from heaven, bright morning star, felled to the earth, sprawling helpless across the nations!" (NEB). This prophecy describes the downfall of the "dragon" satan and his many demon angels ("stars") to the vicinity of the earth: "he swept down a third of the stars* in the sky and flung them to the earth." (Rev 12:4 NEB). "Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels waged war upon the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought, but they had not the strength to win, and no foothold was left them in heaven. So the great dragon was thrown down, that serpent of old that led the whole world astray, whose name is satan, or the devil     thrown down to the earth, and his angels with him."  (Rev 12:7-9 NEB).

'Star' is also the name given to human dungy idols on earth:  To film stars, pop stars, etc. But these and many more high-ranking ones considered to be the 'leading lights' among mankind will die, and their corpses become food for the birds. "Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried aloud to all the birds flying in mid  heaven: 'Come and gather for God's great supper, to eat the flesh of kings and commanders and fighting men, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all men, slave and free, great and small!'"  (Rev 19:17,18 NEB).

When their contempt for Almighty God their Creator is revealed to mankind by the Spirit arrival of The Christ Michael the "Son of Man" "on the clouds of heaven", the evil influence of satan and his demons will be removed from those they inhabited, and will cause in Godless mankind a burning sense of shame, as it is written: "One man shall look aghast at another, and their faces shall burn with shame."  (Isaiah 13:6  8 NEB (Matt 12:43  45).

All the peoples of the world that have shown contempt for Almighty God will lament. "Then those who have misused My Law will be taken by surprise; their contempt for it will bring them continual torment. All who in their lifetime failed to acknowledge Me in spite of all the good things I had given them, all who disdained My Law while freedom still was theirs, who scornfully dismissed the thought of penitence while the  way  was still open     all these will have to learn the truth through torments after death."  (2 Esdras 9:9  12 NEB).

Then satan the devil (Gog) and his demon cohorts (Magog) will be thrown into the abyss for a thousand years, "that  he  might seduce the nations no more till the thousand years are over." (From Rev 20:2,3 NEB). "When the thousand years are over, satan will be let loose from his dungeon; and he will come out to seduce the nations in the four quarters of the earth and to muster them for battle, yes the hosts of Gog and Magog". After which: Spirit "fire came down on them from heaven and consumed them; and the devil, their seducer, was flung into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and false prophet had been flung, there to be tormented day and night forever."  (From Rev 20:7-10 NEB).

24/5/99.
 

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